self-confident - Story 125577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The penthouse was stunning, the city lights twinkling below. Isabella moved through the party, the epitome of grace and charm. She was the hostess, the center of attention. Every interaction was smooth, every gesture calculated.

She saw him, leaning against the bar, her old friend Michael. They’d built treehouses together. She remembered the way he'd always laugh. She approached, her smile radiant. "Michael! It’s been ages! Remember me, Isabella?"

He blinked, a flicker of confusion crossing his face. “I don’t. I'm sorry.” He looked around, as if searching for an escape. Her smile faltered only for a moment. "That's perfectly okay! Wonderful party, right?" She moved on, the social machine whirring back to life.

Emotion: self-confident

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.45 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-confident. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-confident stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-confident emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-confident vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.778
`la`	0.550
`l`	0.467
`😎`	0.458
`😉`	0.411

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.961
`L`	-0.538
`😞`	-0.464
`마다`	-0.459
`😣`	-0.458